Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:54:31 -0500 | From | Alex Deucher <> | Subject | Re: APM, ACPI, WOL, Oh My! |
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Mark Hahn wrote: > > > mode, but the have the option apm=poweroff in my lilo.conf and with the > > apm=power-off. I'm looking at modern kernels, of course (2.4+). > power_off is a valid alternative. at one time, the magic string > was smp-power-off. >
Whoops, I should reread my emails before I hit send; the actual string I have on my PC is apm=power-off.
> some bioses also need to be returned to real mode before that call; > modern kernels have a config option for that.
I tried that option, but it didn't matter, smae behavior. I also tried most if not all of the others like enable apm at boot time etc.
> > > If I shutdown in linux using a vender kernel with apm that powers off > > the machine, it powers off fine and stays off until I hit the power > > button or I send a wake up packet. If I shutdown and power off using > > win98, or with the power button, the machine goes off, but will then > > preceed to reboot with in 3-4 minutes. This is completely repeatable. > > Turning it off manually during the reboot will not stop this. If I turn > > it off manually after it turns itself on, it will continue to try and > > reboot itself every few minutes. they only solution is to let linux > > boot and perform a shutdown and power off. then it stays off. > > so don't use win98 ;)
I rarely do, which is why this problem is not as annoying as it could be :p
> > > AFAIK, WOL is software independant. The only thing I can figure it that > > it's certainly not.
It's not? But you can wake your PC remote with a WOL NIC regardless of the OS. Shutting the PC down again is another issue.
Thanks,
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